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Curved life - Philips 349p7fubeb monitor test

Curved life - Philips 349p7fubeb monitor test

Huge monitor with curved display, thin coffee and high resolution, even for gaming.

Curved life - Philips 349p7fubeb monitor test


 

Introductory

We were lucky this year, we got a lot of interesting monitors from MMD, the owner of the Philips and AOC brand names. Since this company took over, these two brands have been showcasing better-than-better displays almost weekly, providing a solution for every layer from simple office work to the gaming community.

We also had both extremes, and most recently we were able to test a portable solution that works without a separate external power supply. However, the most commonly tested display type is one of the general-purpose models. These are perfect for work and multimedia use, but also for gaming with some compromise.

Nowadays, there is an interesting revolution in displays, with the IPS panels celebrated a few years behind, solutions based on VA technology gaining ground, and most interestingly, TN + film solutions have returned, although we thought that we can forget them forever.

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The reason for this strange revolution is that manufacturers are trying to produce monitors that can be used for most purposes on the one hand, and that it is becoming increasingly important to conquer the gamer market. The latter reason led to the return of TN panels with otherwise snappy quality but fast response times. In recent years, it has also been proven that VA is much more suitable for multi-purpose displays than IPS technology. So now we're there, with the IPS getting more and more into specialty devices designed mostly for graphics work, the VA into everything that isn't an expensive graphics monitor, and the TN a favorite of gamer displays.

In this article, we will look at Philips' new monitor, the 349p7fubeb. Although, I will honestly say, I am not preparing for a serious test, as this solution is not much different from the previously tried bent panel Philips. There is, of course, something worth mentioning in it, we will cover these as well!


 

Packaging and exterior

I’m really not going to write a novel about packaging anymore, not least because it’s neither fancy nor special. The box in which it arrived is not the express shelf-friendly piece, meaning traders certainly don’t put it in the shop window. It would also be superfluous because bazi is big on cardboard, and anyway, what we find inside is much more interesting.

The Philips 349p7fubeb is a piece with a curved display, which, as usual, comes in three pieces. The base, the stand and the panel that we need to screw together. The design, at least if you follow the trunk evolution of Philips monitors, is familiar. In practice, this means that the frame is almost invisible on both sides and at the top of the display, a little thicker at the bottom. Of course, after turning it on, it turns out that there will be another thin bar of black around the visible image, but that’s not dangerous, in fact, from the front, these huge panels are almost airy light.

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The airiness is somewhat opposed to the rugged stand. This was made easier with an oval, elongated breakthrough. This stand is very well invented anyway, is stable, and can be adjusted over a wide range. It can be rotated on the base, the panel can be tilted up or, if necessary, it can be lowered to the table top.

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The connectors and the mini joystick that can be used for adjustment are in the usual place. The latter is no longer unusual, for my part I especially like it. Sitting opposite the monitor, it is located on the lower right of the back cover. Easy to use, you can save on using the buttons. You can scroll through the menu by tilting the joystick right and left, up and down, and press to select menu items.

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One of the biggest novelties of the monitor is found in the connectors. In addition to the usual HDMI and Display Port, there are three conventional format USB connectors, one of which can be used for fast charging. There is an audio input, headphone output and of course an external power connector. The interesting thing that is not yet commonplace is a USB Type-C connector.

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The USB Type-C connection is interesting in many ways. On the one hand, using this monitor makes it instantly Mac compatible, plus since USB C is slowly being found on every modern device, we can connect the monitor from our phone to our notebook with almost anything. To make sure that is not enough the connector is also charged through the connected device, so we win twice. This is really not a superfluous option anyway, because as I wrote in the previous monitor article, my own Xiaomi Notebook Pro has two USB C connectors, but only one of them can send an image out of the machine, which is of course exactly what you can charge through. So, if the monitor doesn’t charge the notebook while in use, I can enjoy the benefits of a shared desktop for a relatively short time.


 

Usage, skills

The Philips 349p7fubeb MVA panel does not stand out from similar solutions in terms of capabilities. Adequate but not exceptionally good response time (4 ms, gray-gray), but viewing angles and contrast ratio rival cheaper IPS solutions.

The display, as shown in the pictures, is very wide, the aspect ratio is 21: 9, the resolution is 3440 x 1440 pixels. There is no problem with color fidelity either, according to the factory data, the coverage of the NTSC color space is 99,8- and the coverage of the sRGB color space is 117,3 percent. Practical tests in most cases tend to give values ​​one anth worse than these, but I think even with that, these are plenty of acceptable values.

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Of course, we also find Philips-specific image enhancement technologies in this monitor, so we don't miss Ultra Wide Color, CrystalClear and LowBlue, and we can also enjoy the process called MultiView for the above-mentioned split-screen mode. The latter allows you to connect multiple displays, such as a desktop computer and a notebook, to the display at the same time and view their images side by side.

One of the special features of the monitor is the USB Type-C connector mentioned above, and the other is the 100 Hz operating mode. The display supports AMD FreeSync technology, and between 40 and 100 Hz you can enjoy interrupted and jam-free images while playing.

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As I indicated in the introduction, most of the monitors are general purpose pieces, and from what I have seen so far, I think the Philips 349p7fubeb is hanging out of line. As with all multi-purpose solutions, we need to make compromises with 349p7fubeb. We can say that the monitor is not very good in any area, but it is excellent in many areas, such as games, where you can't compete with a TN panel in response time, or image refresh, where a blood gamer stuff produces more. however, 100 Hz should not be underestimated.


 

Summary

I haven’t let this article go too far, but I hope I’ve covered the important details. If you are interested in a little more about VA technology, for example, I suggest reading previous Philips monitor articles, a list of which can be found at the end of this page.

We can make the usual statements about the Philips 349p7fubeb. Extremely attractive on the outside, easy to handle, well adjustable, ergonomically perfect stand.

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Built-in technologies have been proven in several previous models, Philips image enhancement features and the eye-friendly LowBlue process are perfect, so using displays is not tiring in the long run. I can only say this for sure because a UHD Philips monitor has been my faithful companion at work for months now, I am also writing this article staring at it. I’ve been convinced by the company before, so I suggest that if you want a new monitor, consider both the Philips and AOC offerings, because you can get displays with pleasant capabilities at a relatively low cost.

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Owner of the HOC.hu website. He is the author of hundreds of articles and thousands of news. In addition to various online interfaces, he has written for Chip Magazine and also for the PC Guru. For a time, he ran his own PC shop, working for years as a store manager, service manager, system administrator in addition to journalism.